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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.